[sldev] A client port to XNA

[Dale Glass]

В сообщении от 22 января 2007 20:00 Matt Raffel написал(a):
> Just asking: what do people think, now that the client code has been
> poured over, how hard would it be to port/rewrite the client using XNA?
>
> Matt

The question I would make is: Why? Rewriting things in the big thing of the 
moment always seemed to be a quite pointless endeavor to me, especially for 
things that already work. By the time you're done, there will be something 
even newer and cooler out there.

Being done with technology X or methodology Y doesn't make things 
automatically better. You only need to look at the amount of crap written in 
C, Java, C++, VB, Perl and any other language for that matter. All of those 
were "revolutionary" at some point and promised lots of incredible things. 
Lots of software that was rewritten due those times turned out to be 
horrible, because things like say, OO, nice as they are, aren't magic, and 
using them without really understanding them doesn't make your code any 
better.

As far as I can see, the client is pretty well written. If it was a horrible 
mess of spaghetti that was impossible to unravel then maybe, but since it's 
not all that bad, I don't really see much of a point in it.

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